Présentation de l'éditeur
Mart selections of excellent matter have been mads for the benefit of Young persons. Performances of this kind are of so great Utility, that fresh productions of them, and new attempts to improve the young mind, will scarcely be deemed superfluous, if the writer make his compilation utractive and interesting, and sufficiently distinct from others. The present work, as the title expresses, aims at the attainment of three objects: to improve youth in the art of reading; to meliorate their language and sentiments ;and to inculcate some of the most important principles of piety and virtue. The pieces selected, not only give exerctse to a great variety of emotions, and the correspondent tones and variations of voice, but contain sentences and members of sentences, which are diversified, proportioned, and pointed with accuracy. Exercises of this nature are, it is presumed, well calculated to teach youth to read with propriety and effect. A selection cf sentences, in which variety and proportion, with exact punctuation, have been carefully observed, in all taeir parts as well as with respect to one another, will probably have a much greater effect, in properly teaching the art of reading, than is commonly imagined. In such constructions, very thing is accommodated to the understanding and the voice; and the common difficulties in learning to read well are obviated. When the learner has acquired a habit of reading such sentences with justness and facility, he will readily apply that habit, and the improvements he has made, to sentences more complicated and irregular, and of a construction entirely different. The language of the pieces chosen for this collection has been carefully regarded. Purity, propriety,perspicuity,and, in many instances,clega1 fdiction, distinguish them. They are extracted from the works t.. 3most correct and elegant writers. From the sources w
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